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Critiques of Minimal Realism [PDF]
, 2017 Saatsi’s minimal realism holds that science makes theoretical progress. It is designed to get around the pessimistic induction, to fall between scientific realism and instrumentalism, and to explain the success of scientific theories.
Park, Seungbae
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Models, Brains, and Scientific Realism [PDF]
, 2006 Prediction Error Minimization theory (PEM) is one of the most promising attempts to model perception in current science of mind, and it has recently been advocated by some prominent philosophers as Andy Clark and Jakob Hohwy. Briefly, PEM maintains that “
Sterpetti, Fabio
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Theism, naturalism, and scientific realism [PDF]
, 2017 Scientific knowledge is not merely a matter of reconciling theories and laws with data and observations. Science presupposes a number of metatheoretic shaping principles in order to judge good methods and theories from bad.
Koperski, Jeffrey
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In Defense of Realism and Selectivism from Lyons’s Objections [PDF]
, 2019 Lyons (2016, 2017, 2018) formulates Laudan’s (1981) historical objection to scientific realism as a modus tollens. I present a better formulation of Laudan’s objection, and then argue that Lyons’s formulation is supererogatory.
Park, Seungbae
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HERMENEUTICAL ASPECT OF REFERENCE
Praxis Filosófica, 2011 Hermeneutical aspect of reference embraces a relation to reality in itsbroadest sense. This aspect of reference explains how some conceptsemployed in scientific theories and historical and fictional text, which areconsidered as “non-existant”, transform
Sanja Ivic
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Surrealism Is Not an Alternative to Scientific Realism [PDF]
, 2019 Surrealism holds that observables behave as if T were true, whereas scientific realism holds that T is true. Surrealism and scientific realism give different explanations of why T is empirically adequate.
Park, Seungbae
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Philosophy of Chemistry against Standard Scientific Realism and Anti-Realism
Philosophia Scientiæ, 2015 In this paper, it is suggested that philosophy of chemistry can be seen as having quite a central role in the post-Kuhnian philosophy of science in general, and in analysing the scientificc realism vs anti-realism debate in standard philosophy of science,
Rein Vihalemm
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Studia Philosophiae Christianae, 2021 This paper considers and aims to advance the discussion on the reconciliation of scientific realism with the pessimistic induction argument. It presents a novel argument in favour of scientific realism based on the correspondence relationship between ...
Janina Buczkowska
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Rejecting Mathematical Realism while Accepting Interactive Realism [PDF]
, 2018 Indispensablists contend that accepting scientific realism while rejecting mathematical realism involves a double standard. I refute this contention by developing an enhanced version of scientific realism, which I call interactive realism.
Park, Seungbae
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